Chapter 244: Countermeasures

What Zhao Tianyou said is a bit exaggerated, the war between the two sides will never depend on the mood of one of the parties, and there is a more important reason, that is, Prime Minister Boyan's decision, after such a big battle loss, there is still no courage to continue to besiege the city.

When the Song army raised a glass in the city to celebrate the achievement, Ah Shu was really as Zhao Tianyou estimated, in order to eliminate the threat of cannonballs, the entire camp was moved back three miles. Although the three-mile road is not far, it is late at night when they have settled down, and the camp with bright lights and loud voices is the camp for the wounded soldiers who can return safely.

More than 5,000 soldiers returned with wounds, and the doctors in the army gathered to apply medicine to the wounded soldiers and bandage their wounds, and they worked until the second half of the night to be quiet. Of course, there are also soldiers who are bleeding and have internal injuries, who die without waiting for a doctor's treatment, so how can they mobilize manpower and material resources to treat the wounded on the battlefield outside the city.

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army, Siqin Bari was naked, kneeling straight and straight in front of Ah Shu and bowing his head to plead guilty.

"Marshal, the command of Siqin Bari failed, and before the death of 80,000 tribal children, the crime deserves death, please marshal order to behead his subordinates!"

Ah Shu was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, the upright army was newly defeated, and it was no longer appropriate to behead the main general, which would hit the already low morale even more.

"Get up, the reason for the defeat is not you, it is the commander who commands the battle, and the result is the same. The reason is that the artillery of the Song army is huge, and there are endless kinds of firearms, so that our soldiers can't deal with it, if we can only rely on my life to fight, I would rather withdraw from the army than continue to entangle, let my sons go to die in vain. ”

"Marshal, you can't retreat, the Song army will definitely have flaws, the army has gone through thousands of mountains and rivers to reach Guangzhou, how can you easily withdraw and go back!"

The dozens of generals around were very excited, the current situation was really bad, both battles were defeated and there was no means to fight back, and they were beaten by the Song army, it was really embarrassing to throw them home, and the Yuan army had never encountered something in the past ten years.

"For Song Jun's firearms, if you have a good way to crack it, you might as well say it, let's discuss it together!"

"This, gunpowder is afraid of water, how can it be attacked with water......"

"Don't you still have to think about it, of course you wait until it rains before attacking the city!"

"That's right, the rainy season in the south is coming soon, and when it rains heavily, the Song army's artillery will definitely be restricted. We still have 300,000 soldiers, and they are also rushing forward like today's siege, and they don't have so many sergeants to participate in the defense, haha, it shouldn't be difficult to break the city at that time! ”

The lunar calendar has passed May, and it will soon enter the rainy season, and it is difficult to say whether the siege effect will be better at that time, and it needs to be carefully discussed to confirm. However, everyone knows the characteristics of gunpowder, afraid of tide and water is very squeamish, the Yuan army used a lot of it during the western expedition, mainly used to set fire to the city, because gunpowder is very difficult to keep before it was snubbed.

When the Yuan army used gunpowder in the west, the formula and incendiary explosion effect were more rudimentary, and even the stability of gunpowder was greatly reduced. It needs to be temporarily deployed before the battlefield, and many kinds of materials are mixed and dried on the spot according to the proportion, and the efficiency is very average, which is not as efficient as making a left-handed torch and a right-handed scimitar.

When Genghis Khan had not yet conquered the Song Dynasty and mobilized the whole country to conquer Europe, gunpowder played a very big role in conquering Khorezm. Europeans had seen gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty when it was brought to the world by merchants with cargo ships, but its power in war was carried forward by the Mongol cavalry on their westward expeditions.

"Even if the cannon and gunpowder can be wet in rainy days, the Song army only needs to build a canopy at the head of the city, unless it attacks in the rainstorm, so that the cannonballs flying in mid-air are wet with water, and they can't explode and hurt people after landing."

In the big tent, you and I expressed their opinions, Ah Shu sat in the middle and listened silently, carefully thinking and digesting every idea, the advantages and disadvantages of the rainy day attack had been passed several times in his mind, and he was still not satisfied.

"General Zhang Hongfan built a batch of brave cannons, after he was defeated and died, the cannons belonged to Dong Wenbing, a Han general from Quanzhou, I don't know what is the difference between the power and the head of the Song army?"

The general who spoke and asked questions didn't know that the Shenyong cannon had been wiped out, and Dong Wenbing was tied into a big character at the head of the city, and he had watched the battle under the city for a whole day today. In fact, it is not appropriate to say that it is a fight, if you have to describe it, it is better to say that it is a massacre unilaterally carried out by the Song army.

This kind of battle loss ratio was experienced for the first time by the Yuan army, although it was bombed very badly at Yashan, but tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Song Army's naval division were killed in battle, and the actual number of casualties on both sides was about the same. There may even be more Song Jun.

"The prime minister has a war report coming, Dong Wenbing's department attacking the city from the east city gate, more than 20,000 people have been defeated in the battle, and General Dong Wenbing was buried with the soldiers, and died alone outside the east gate of Guangzhou City. Forty Shenyong cannons only fired a few shots, and the Song army's artillery was blown up, but according to the soldiers who returned to the camp, after the Shenyong cannon bombarded the city, the Song army suffered a lot of damage on the city. ”

Ah Shu looked at the herald and asked, "Dong Wenbing is dead?" Where was the casting of the Divine Cannon, and the production of gunpowder, carried out? ”

"Marshal Qiyu, the cannon casting place is in Meizhou, General Zhang Hongfan collected iron tools in the city, and it took three months to melt 100,000 catties of molten iron before casting more than 80 brave cannons. The craftsmen who cast cannons and made gunpowder were all in the hands of Prime Minister Boyan, and there were also some firearms made experimentally, such as the ballistas used by the Song army, and the thunderbolts thrown by soldiers into the city. ”

"There is such a thing, why didn't anyone report it to me earlier? Ay! Take me to see the prime minister immediately, such an important matter cannot be delayed for another moment! Ah Shu shook his head, and while he began to complain about others, he also put away his arrogance, if he was too light on the enemy, how could he lose so badly!

"Squeak quack!"

The huge city gate bolt was slinged a little too much, the hanging suspension bridge was lowered, and more than a thousand cavalry armed with spears and torches rushed out of the city gate, what is the Song army going to do?

The sound was heard far away in the middle of the night, and the soldiers in the city of Guangzhou shot down a few bursts of rockets, and some unburned wood burned, illuminating a large area in front of the main city gate.

These cavalrymen were right in front of the city gates, and they began to clear the moat of the clogged corpses in the river, pushing them into the middle of the current, so that the force of the current could carry the corpses away, so that the moat could resume its protective function.

"Brother Zhang, today's cannon is so powerful, you have been watching it for a long time, can't you enjoy it?"

"Hey, it's so enjoyable, the soldiers of the firearms battalion, and let me light a shot! It's amazing, it's just that there are too few shells, and I used it in one day! ”

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